I also suggest keeping your .vimrc / .bashrc / .screenrc / whatever other config files you like in some kind of git repo so you can sync your config files to th

I also suggest keeping your .vimrc / .bashrc / .screenrc / whatever other config files you like in some kind of git repo so you can sync your config files to the remote machine nicely. The other nice thing about this is that if you have a remote that you don't use very often, you can either git clone the repo and rake / make to install, or even wget the file and move it in place manually.